Just because you've written a song doesn't mean that you have pulled through. There are definitely songs where I embodied someone else's pain and that was purely to serve the listener because I knew they needed to hear something. But most of the good stuff comes from my life.

I love being vulnerable. It's scary. I feel like the best stuff that I have ever written can come from real vulnerable places.

The stories that are too personally vulnerable to write are the ones that must be told.

It's not the circumstances that determine who you're gonna be but how you deal with these problems and pains that come your way.

I never play all new stuff, because you got to "dance with the girl that brought you" what is that saying? You got to play the songs that got you there, so I love playing the songs from my very first record.

Life's too short to stay where we are.

When I set out to write, I want to write something that will rip your heart out.